Woven pile carpet



(No Model.) I

R. B. LOYND. WOVEN PILE CARPET.

` No. 548,321. Patented out. 22, 1895.

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RICHARD B. LOYND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WOVEN PILE CARPET.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,321, dated October 22, 1895.

Application filed January 31, 1895. Serial No. 536,831. (No model.)

To all whom it moby concern.-

Beit known that I, RICHARD B. LOYND, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven Pile Carpets, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive, attractive, durable, and acceptable su bstitute for Axminster, velvet, and other similar expensive carpets, and for this purpose to construct a chenille-faced carpet fabric in which the relations of its constituent Warps, wefts, backing, and chenille face, as well as the functions of some or all of them in respect to the others are such that a sharp, clear, and distinct multi-colored pattern or figure may be printed upon the chenille of its face; and to this end my invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following descriptiom'taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, and in which is illustrated diagrammatically a sectional view taken longitudinally of the carpet-that is to say, in the direction of the warps.

In the drawing the backing or ground cornprises ground-wefts l and center wefts 2, that may consist of jute or other comparatively inexpensive material and groundwarps or, b, and c, whereofa and b comprise a Warp in two divisions, and whereof c comprises a stuerwarp in one division that lies between and separates the ground-wefts l and center wefts 2. The wefts of the backing or ground are disposed in pairs, comprising a ground-weft 1 and acenter weft 2, arranged one above the other, and the respective divisions of the warp a h cross each other between each of these pairs of wefts, so that there is formed upon the face of the backing and between the center wefts 2 and stuEer-Warp c a series of channels d. The channels d are each intended for the reception of one of the chenille facewefts 3, which are tied or drawn into them by means of the binding-warp e, which comprises one division and passes under each pair of ground-wefts l and up between the pairs of wefts l and 2 and around the chenille facewefts 3, so as to draw them firmly down into the channels d and upon the stuEer-Warp c. By this construction the downwardly-proj ecting pile of the respective chenille face-wefts 3 is packed into t-he channels d and is supported at its respective sides by the center wefts 2 and from underneath by the stuffer- Warp o, which in turn is supported by the ground-wefts 1. The upwardly and outwardly projecting pile of the respective chenille wefts 3 overlies the upper portions of the center wefts 2, and, as it were, intermeshes with the upwardly and Aoutwardly projecting pile of its neighbors, so as to constitute a smoothout pile face upon the fabric.

The object of the above-described relations and functions of the different constituents of `the fabric is to facilitate and render possible satisfactory printing in various colors upon the face of the fabric, and this object is at` tained because the chenille wefts are not displaced and their pile is not disadvantageously disturbed by the pressure of the part that does the printing, for the reason that each chenille face-weft is supported at its sides bv the center wefts 2, and from underneath by the stutter-warp c, upon which it virtually lies and is nested.

From the foregoing description of the relation of the constituents one to another and of the functions to be attained thereby the skillful weaver will readily understand the construction of a fabric embodying features of my invention and will be enabled to produce the same upon known looms without the exercise of invention.' However, for the sake of description, I may state that the fabric may be produced upon a loom adapted to throw three shuttles, appertaining, respectively, to the wefts l 2 3, and having two harnesses working alternately (i. e., when one is up the other is down) for operating the respective divisions of the warp a b, a third harness for raising the stutter-warp c when the wefts l are thrown and for lowering it when the wefts 2 are thrown, and a fourth harness for lifting the binder-warp e prior to each shot of chenille weft 3 and after each shot of ground and center wefts 1 and 2.

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Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a chenille faced carpet fabric having chenille face wefts and having a yarn stung warp, the combination of, center and ground wefts disposed in pairs the one above the other on opposite sides of the stutter warp and a warp ca -b, passed around said pairs of Wefts and crossed diagonally at the center ot' the fabric and between each of said pairs of wefts to form an inelastic backing or ground web having channels, as d, disposed at the intersections of the warp a-b, and between the center wefts, with, a binder warp passing over 'RICHARD B. LOYN D.

Witnesses:

K. M. GILLIGAN, CHAs. J. MCGRATH. 

